Friday, August 28, 2009

All sides have worn out Hitler references, but the point about speeches is valid. Why waste time listening to glib programmed speeches when a person's actions say much more?From Townhall forum in Florida 8/20/09, getty photo

The White House run networks feel such questions are too 'partisan' or not factual. How was the free infomercial not partisan? A case could be made that it was illegal unless the network provided the same airtime for opposing views.

On a national level, however, ABC and NBC have refused to run the spot in its present form.

"It's a powerful ad," said Bob Adams, executive director of the League of American Voters, a national nonprofit group with 15,000 members who advocate individual liberty and government accountability. "It tells the truth and it really highlights one of the biggest vulnerabilities and problems with this proposed legislation, which is it rations health care and disproportionately will decimate the quality of health care for seniors."

Adams said the advertisement is running on local network affiliates in states like Louisiana, Arkansas, Maine and Pennsylvania. But although CBS has approved the ad for national distribution and talks are ongoing with FOX,

The Democratic operatives running the project are already holding a daily early morning call with dozens of operatives from liberal groups — labor, health care, the environment — to coordinate messaging and to deliver usable talking points for the day, according to liberal operative Jennifer Palmieri, who’s the project’s communications director.

The new war room — which is called Progressive Media — represents a serious ratcheting up of efforts to present a united liberal front in the coming policy wars. The goal of the war room will be to do hard-hitting research that boils down complex policy questions into usable talking points and

narratives that play well in the media and build public support for the White House’s policy goals....

For a flesh-and-blood politician, such plummeting popularity would be alarming; but this is the messiah – The One – the holistic president who was supposed to unify a troubled nation. That delusion has been exploded."...

Dr Steve Boorman, a leading occupational health expert, was asked by the Government to assess links between staff habits and NHS productivity. He will present his interim review today. His findings are drawn from six months of staff surveys, workshops, data reviews and responses from trusts and experts.

— More than 45,000 NHS workers are calling in sick every day, one and a half times the rate of absence in the private sector. Reducing the 10.3 million working days lost per year by a third would save the NHS £555 million annually.

— More than one in five staff smoke, the same proportion as in the adult population. About 40,000 NHS workers smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day.

— More than a third of the workforce are in moderate to very poor mental health, with many expressing concern about intimidation from patients and their relatives.

— Hospitals with worse staff health are less productive and have higher rates of

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

"“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,”— Michelle Obama....

Michelle Obama, as we reported on July 7, is not served by twenty-two attendants who stand by to cater to her every whim.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Obama: "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking"...via Drudge, via Breitbart